Swannanoa Valley residents travel to Guatemala to build compost toilets. In addition, this trip they also began building a house.

Written by

Jackie Kitchen
| Special To The Black Mountain News

Each time I go to Guatemala, I say this is the best mission trip ever - and I can say this again. Without a doubt God's presence was there.

Living H2O Wells Guatemala is a Mission of Swannanoa United Methodist Church. It started about nine years ago. Each year we take a team down to meet with our team of four in Guatemala. In the years we have been going we have dug wells, built compost toilets and built houses, and worked with the people to improve the health through cleaning up their ground water. We are teaching how to build these compost toilets and the people are now understanding how important it is ...